Location Based Wireless Network Services Project Goal: The objective of this project is to use a mobile client's information to determine its location within a wireless LAN. The client's information is defined as its IP address and signal strength of the neighboring access points. Client information is aggregated at its associated access point and forwarded to a centralized server that determines the appropriate location based service to provide to the client. Details: 1. We would need to determine a method to identify the location of a client given an access point or a set of access points. On acquiring the signal strengths of neighboring access points it will be possible to triangulate and pin point the general area within which the client is located. We would need to determine the best resolution possible for a given number of neighboring access points. 2. We would need to observe variations of signal strength due to multi path effects introduced by people. This would introduce a temporal dimension to the effect that applications would render the same service based on different signal strengths for different times of the day. 3. Networking implementation includes the following steps: a. Acquiring client information (IP, SNR) and sending it on the access point. b. A signaling mechanism between the access point and the server would be triggered every time a new client associates itself with an access point. c. Upon determining its location, the server can render appropriate services given parameters like the client's IP address, SNR of neighboring access points, subscribed services, time of day, history of movement etc. 4. Create a demo to show location-based services for mobile clients.